S.Amdt. 2900

SA 2900. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RELIABILITY RESEARCH FOR
DEFENSE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Defense of the
Advanced Research Projects Agency shall, in collaboration
with the heads of relevant Federal agencies--
(1) identify fundamental research work streams to enable
more robust evaluations of artificial intelligence models
before deployment, including methods to analyze model
internals, detect hidden behaviors that could compromise
mission effectiveness, and protect artificial intelligence
systems from physical tampering and side-channel attacks; and
(2) initiate the review, research, and development of
advanced techniques for assessment of reliability of
artificial intelligence models, mechanistic interpretability
of such models, and related hardware security.
(b) Research Sharing.--The Director shall share with the
broader scientific community the findings of the Director
with respect to the activities carried out under subsection
(a) and the results of research conducted under such
subsection whenever doing so does not compromise classified
information or national security interests.
(c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 1 year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit
to Congress a

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report on the findings of the Director with respect to the
activities carried out under subsection (a) and the results
of research conducted under such subsection. Such report
shall include recommendations for further related avenues of
research.
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